How to grow sage in China? (I)

As the customs may bar a live plant from entering the country, I

would need to find it within. First, what’s the Chinese name for the

common sage?

 

Google translated sage as 鼠尾草. Baidu added 可做调料.  So far, so good.

 

Then Wikipedia showed the herb’s scientific name as Salvia officinalis.

 

Baidu 百科, however, said 鼠尾草’s latin name was Salvia japonica,

native to East and South Asia and looking quite different from the

common sage which came from the Mediterranean.

 

The Chinese Wikipedia, 基维百科, gave the correct latin name for 鼠尾草，

but that seemed it. No a single line was written in Chinese about the

herb and not a single link was provided. So besides its name and maybe

Scarborough Fair, the Chinese knew nothing about the plant?

所有跟帖： 

• 估计对其知道很少， 禁是应该的，引进新物种造成生态灾难例子比比皆是， 比如美洲的Asian carp -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/11/2023 postreply 10:17:48

• That's a good point. Bans fail over time, though. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/11/2023 postreply 10:27:15

• 中国不用吗？查了图片： -妖妖灵- ♀ (82 bytes) () 05/11/2023 postreply 14:20:18

• They don't even have a word for it! 鼠尾草 is fake. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/11/2023 postreply 14:43:34

• parsely sage rosemary and thyme -Marauders- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/12/2023 postreply 13:30:11

• 我在grocery store里这四样都看到了，每次都摆在那，就像中国人的葱姜蒜一样普遍：） -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/12/2023 postreply 22:02:18